The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian; Alistair Ian Blyth (Translator)
$54.99 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand ac ...Show more
The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
$51.02 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail " --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art ...Show more
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival by Robert Jay Lifton
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents ...Show more
The Cubs Way - The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci
$12.63 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The New York Times Bestseller With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their e ...Show more
The Far Away Brothers - Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham
$19.29 NZD
Category: Biography
The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, the United States was a distant fantasy to identical twins Ernesto and Raul ...Show more
The Greatest Story Ever Told ... So Far - Why Are We Here? by Lawrence M. Krauss
$19.29 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorInternationally renowned award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality -- a grand poetic vi ...Show more
The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo
$11.43 NZD
Category: Translation
A chilling, wildly original novel from a major new voice from South Korea The Impossible Fairy Taleis the story of two unexceptional grade-school girls. Mia is "lucky"--she is spoiled by her mother and, as she explains, her two fathers. She gloats over her exotic imported color pencils and won't be den ...Show more
The Kelloggs - The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek by Howard Markel
$25.01 NZD
Category: Biography
John Harvey Kellogg was one of America's most beloved physicians; a bestselling author, lecturer, and health-magazine publisher; founder of the Battle Creek Sanitarium; and patron saint of the pursuit of wellness. His youngest brother, Will, was the founder of the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company ...Show more
The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead: Stories by Chanelle Benz
$49.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING* Named a Best Book of 2017 by The San Francisco Chronicle Named one of Electric Literature's 15 Best Short Story Collections of 2017 A stunningly original deb ...Show more
The Mother of All Questions - Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions by Rebecca Solnit
$38.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
The Operator - The Life and Times of Walter O'Malley by Jerald Podair
$79.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.When Walter O'Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a new ballpark next to downtown, he ignited ...Show more
The Resurrection of Joan Ashby by Cherise Wolas
$20.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
Longlisted for 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionKirkus Reviews's Best Fiction of 2017Kirkus Reviews's Best Debut Novels of 2017Booklist's Top 10 First Novels: 2017The New York Times Book Review's Editors' ChoiceIndie Next Pick for September 2017Kirkus Reviews's 13 Fiction Debuts & B ...Show more